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“It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.”

Men Earth Existence Wonder Destiny New Life Pondering Riddle

Book:Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

“It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.”

Should Firsts Turns Answers Steps Class Importance Civilisation Riddle First Class Sphinx

Author:Gregory Bateson

“Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.”

Life Giving Giving Up Shrinks Riddle

Book:The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

“There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.”

Persons Answers Quality Demand Tales Fairy Legends Freak Fairy Tale Riddle

Author:Diane Arbus

“What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.”

Evil Memories Records Wonderful Deeds Mysterious Witness Faithful Faculty Plastic Almighty Fidelity Register Riddle Our Words Inexplicable Tablets

Book:Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

Source: Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

“Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.”

Should Wells Problem Answers Attitude Offers Solve Dues Should I Assured Riddle Due Time

Book:Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.”

Way Made Fighting Found Force Challenges Ability Answers Offers Spread Resistance Superiors Barriers Honour Grey Adversaries Riddle Cotton Matching Ineptitude

Author:Ayn Rand

“Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.”

Today Causes Sides Class Effects Security Particular Devil Financial Cause And Effect Riddle

Author:James Buchan

“I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.”

Body Answers Serious Jokes Raised Bones Riddle Pranks

Author:James Brolin

“I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.”

Kind School Used Found High School University Profession Flying Flight Beach Things To Do Just One Riddle Skip Cool Things Daytona

Author:Jerry Doyle

“I am a man of few words, but many riddles.”

Men Riddle Few Words

Author:Frank Gorshin

“You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.”

Body Speak Alive Relationship Breaths Breathe Rhyme Ache Riddle

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.”

Philosophy Sun Wife Fine Cake Riddle Fiddle

Author:John Denver